Window-screen.



No. 802,838. PATENTED OCT. 24, 1905.

` C. G. WOODS.

WINDOW SCREEN.

APPLIUATIOH FILED Arima. 1905.

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OHARLES G. WOODS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD l TO JAMES D. LO'WARY, OF LORAINE. ILLINOIS, ONE-THIRD TO LULU M. WOODS, AND ONE-THIRD TO BESSIE MCUOY, OF ST. LOUIS, MIS- sonar.

WINDOW-SCREEN.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented oef. 24, 1905.

Application led April 18, 1905. Serial No. 256,297-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES G. WOODS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Screens, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to window-screens,

, and has fornite object the provision of a windowscreen that will roll up in a casing located at the top of the window-frame when said screen is not in use.

The further object of my invention is to provide a window-screen that will cover the entire opening in a window-frame, thus allowing either the top or bottom sash to be raised or lowered to provide proper ventilation.

To the above purposes my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts that will be hereinafter more fully shown, described, and

claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the outside of a window that is equipped with my improved screen. Fi 2 1s a vertical section taken on line 2 2 o Fi 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged vertical section ta en on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a erspective view of one of a pair of plates ma e use of to support the spring-roller on which the wire screen winds. Fig. 5 is an enlarged Idetail section taken on line 5 5 of F' 1. is an enlarged detail section ta en on line 6 6 of Fig. l. Fi 7 is a view in perspective of the upper en of one ofthe channeluides in which the edges of the screen trave Fig. 8 is an enlarged cross-section taken on line 8 8 of Fig. 1. Fig. 9 is a pers ective view of one of the bearing-plates whic support the springroher.

of the window-frame4 of these plates is provided with a circular aperture 7 and the opposite plate with a rectangular aperture 8, these a ertures receiving the journals of said ro er. Positioned between said plates and around the roller" is a circular sheet-metal casing 9, which forms a housing for the wire screen when it is rolled up on the roller 6.' Leg? 10, formed integral with the inner faces of t e plates 5 at the tops thereof, extend beneath the ends of the casin 9 to separate the same, and lugs 1 1 are forme integral with the inner piecesl of the lower edges of said plates, which lugs extend into Athe slot or opening formed between the adjusting ends of the casing, and thus prevent any rotation of said casing. The slot or opening between the ends of the iece of material of which the'casing is formed) extends the entire length of said casing, or from one plate 5 to the other, in order to allow the free passage of the screen into or out of said casing.

Located against the inside faces of each of the sides of the windowframe 1 are the vertically-arranged guides 12 in the form of channels, the same bein formed of single pieces of material and hefd so that their upper ends are immediately beneath the slot or opening in the housing 9.

Adapted to wind upon the s ring-roller 6 is a section of a wire screen 13, t e side edges of which ride in the guides 12, and the lower edge of said screen is held between a pair'oi1 sheet-metal plates 14, the ends of which eX- tend into said guides 12. These strips 14 are secured to a wooden facing-stri 15, the same being provided on its outer ace with finger-engaging lip 16. The outer walls or members 12a of the ides .12 have their edges cut away, as in 'cated b 16, and in said cut-away portions operate t e binders or locking-strips 17, the same being pivotally held on their ends by the pivot-pms 18, that pass throu h ears 19, that 'are' bent from the material o which the guides 12 are formed v at the upper and lower ends of the cut-away portions 16. These binders 17 are of such a width as that when they are swun around roc said guides 12. This arrangement makes a perfectly tight joint between the screen and terior to the interior 'of the screen. The

lower pair of li s 18 are so located as that-the lower ends of t e binders 17 will engage over the ends of the Afacing-strip 15 that project,

into the guides l2 when said facing-strip is moved downwardly to itslirnit of movement a ainst the lower part of the window-frame. Vhen the binders 17 are swung around into lanes parallel with the guides l2, as seen by dotted lines in Figs. 5 and 6, the screen 1s free to bemoved upwardly as desired and to be wound on the spring-roller 6.

My improved window-screen is very simple in construction and operation, can be entirely wound within the ousing whenever it is-not needed, and as said screen covers the entire window-frame either sash may be raised or lowered in order to obtain perfect ventilation to the room in which said window'is located.

I claim- 4l. In a window-screen, a pair of plates mounted on opposite sides in the upper end of a window-frame, a hollow cylinder havin a slot in its lower side arranged between sai plates, lugs integral with the upper ortions of said plates for supporting the en s of the cylinder, lugs integral with the lower portions of said plates for engaging in the ends of the slot in the cylinder, a spring-roller mounted for rotation within the cylinder, a screen winding upon the roller and passin out of the cylinder through the slot, vertioa channel-guides arranged beneath the plates in whichthe said edges of the screen travel, binders pivotally secured at their ends to the soaese channel-guides and swinving horizontally to enga e the said ed es of tzhe wire screen, substantially as speci ed.

2. In awindow-screen, a housing detachably secured to the upper portion of a window-frame, va spring-roller therein, a wir screen Winding u on the spring-roller, chan'- nel-guides yexten ing downwardly from the ends ofthe housing, binders extending approximately the entlre len th of said channelguides and beinr pivote 'at their ends to said channel-gui es and arranged to 4swing horizontally to en age said edges of the wire screen, substantie ly as specified.

-3. In a window-screen, a housing arranged in the upper end of the Window-frame, a spring-ro ler mounted for rotation therein, c annel-guides secured to the Window-frame beneath the ends of said housin a wire screen adapted to wind upon sai springroller and travel in the channel-guides, bin ers lpivotally held at their ends to the front Wal s ofthe channel-guides and adapted to swing horizontally to engage the edges of the screen and bear the same against the rear walls of said channel-guides, and a strip sei cured to the lower end of the wire screen and which is adapted to be engaged beneath the lower ends of the binders, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CHARLES G. WOODS.

Witnesses:

M. I). SMITH, EDW. M. HARRINGTON. 

